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T. Jameson Brewer, Editor; Cleveland Hayes, Editor – Myers Education Press, 2025
"Food Stories: Navigating the Academy with Cultural Lessons from the Kitchen" is the first volume in the series "Culinary Canvas: A Series on Integrating the Arts and Food into Higher Education." The purpose of the series is to explore the innovative integration of arts and food into higher education. Each volume aims to…
Descriptors: Food, Foods Instruction, Cooking Instruction, Higher Education
David Philoxene, Editor; Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, Editor; Emma Haydée Fuentes, Editor – Teachers College Press, 2024
Increasingly, faculty with intersectional perspectives are challenging many aspects of higher education and urging a radical reimagination of the institution itself. This volume explores the successful strategies and contradictions of working within, against, and beyond a university with the goal of creating a humanizing educational experience for…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, College Faculty, Universities
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Ruffin, Ingrid, Ed.; Powell, Charissa, Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
The many and varied challenges facing higher education include a culture of publish or perish, increased course loads without more pay or benefits, increased pressure on institutions to compete for students, budget cuts, a political atmosphere targeting higher education, and continued systemic inequities. Those who work in higher ed are under more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Publish or Perish Issue, Self Concept, Emotional Response
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Masse, Michelle A., Ed.; Hogan, Katie J., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2010
All tenured and tenure-track faculty know the trinity of promotion and tenure criteria: research, teaching, and service. While teaching and research are relatively well-defined areas of institutional focus and evaluation, service work is rarely tabulated or analyzed as a key aspect of higher education's political economy. Instead, service, silent…
Descriptors: Tenure, Females, Labor, Rewards
Howard, Rebecca Moore; Robillard, Amy – Heinemann, 2008
Recent cases have demonstrated that plagiarism is a hot-button issue. It is also pervasive, occurring in universities, four-year colleges, community colleges, secondary schools, graduate programs, international classrooms, multicultural classrooms, writing centers, writing-across-the-curriculum programs, scholarly publications and the popular…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Plagiarism, Writing Instruction, College Instruction
Hoy, Wayne K., Ed.; Miskel, Cecil G., Ed. – 2002
This volume presents a range of research and perspectives dedicated to advancing understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. The eight chapters are: (1) "Organizational Learning in High-Stakes Accountability Environments: Lessons from an Urban School District" (Helen M. Marks and Susan M. Printy); (2) "Sources of…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Workload, School Organization
Wechsler, Harold S., Ed. – 2001
This report contains seven articles on current issues in higher education and a separate faculty salary report for 1999-2000. Articles on the "Status of the Profession" are: (1) "Faculty Salaries, 1999-2000" (Suzanne B. Clery and John B. Lee); (2) "Unions and Faculty Governance" (Christine Maitland and Gary Rhoades);…
Descriptors: Accountability, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Educational Economics
Wechsler, Harold, Ed. – 2000
This report contains seven articles on current issues in higher education and a separate faculty salary report for 1998-1999. Articles on the status of the profession are: (1) "Faculty Salaries, 1998-99" (Suzanne B. Clery and John B. Lee); (2) "Innovative Approaches to Bargaining" (Gary Rhoades and Christine Maitland); (3)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Educational Economics
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1995
This almanac contains seven articles on current issues in higher education and a report on current faculty salaries. Part 1 includes the following articles: (1) "Faculty Salaries, 1993-94" (John B. Lee), which tracks national and state salary trends; (2) "Workload and Productivity: Case Studies" (Henry L. Allen), which presents…
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgets, Collective Bargaining, College Administration
Wechsler, Harold, Ed. – 1998
This annual report contains six essays on current issues in higher education and a faculty salary report for 1996-97. The essays include: (1) "Faculty Salaries, 1996-97" (Suzanne B. Clery and John B. Lee), which notes that faculty salaries increased 3.1 percent for the year although the gap between the best- and lowest-paid faculty…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
American Society for Engineering Education, Washington, DC. – 1980
Twelve articles that are designed to provide ideas to engineering department heads are presented. Articles and authors are as follows: "Estimating Undergraduate Student Capacity for an Engineering Department," (T. W. F. Russell, R. L. Daughtery, A. F. Graziano); "Financial Evaluation of Education Programs," (George DePuy and Ralph Swalm); "The…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, College Faculty, Department Heads, Departments
Hare, Paul G., Ed. – 1997
The papers in this book discuss the goals and constraints facing institutions of higher education in Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union countries. In the European Union countries budgetary pressures and the increasing number of students attending institutions of higher education have resulted in serious financial difficulties for many…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Wechsler, Harold, Ed. – 1997
This report contains seven essays on current issues in higher education and a 1995-96 faculty salary report. "Faculty Salaries, 1995-96" (John B. Lee) provides an overview of faculty salaries, while "Faculty Workload and Productivity: Ethnic and Gender Disparities (Henry L. Allen) examines the ethnic and gender differences in…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Wechsler, Harold, Ed. – 1999
This report presents seven articles on current issues in higher education and a separate faculty salary report for 1997-98. Articles on the status of the profession are: (1) "Faculty Salaries, 1997-98" (John B. Lee and Robert Harmon); (2) "Workload and Productivity in an Era of Performance Measure" (Henry Lee Allen); (3)…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Educational Economics, Educational Finance
Diamond, Robert M., Ed.; Adam, Bronwyn E., Ed. – 1995
This report presents the statements of discipline-based professional associations and accrediting agencies on professional recognition of college faculty for their varied contributions in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service. An introductory section describes the evolution of a nationwide effort to open dialogue on faculty priorities…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Administrative Policy, Agency Role, Art Education